Administrative Ethical Principles Guiding a Redesign of a First-Year Writing Program
Abstract
Program administration, I suggest, is necessarily an ethical enterprise. This statement likely comes as no surprise to many of my colleagues, who as administrators are deeply committed to the success and futures of their students, to the ethical working conditions of teachers and staff, to meaningful pedagogy, and to building sustainable and ethical infrastructures for their programs. But administrative work is all too often invisible to our students, who see microscopic effects of administrative work in their courses and advising but often donReferences
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